The American Church Miss: on in Shanghai has received a telegram from My. Weigel, its representative at Paoying' and the fon the spot, that been completely looted by brigands and partly burnt.
Paoying is in, this province, on the Grand "Canal, not far from Yangchow. been unable to go over the' morning were a ing, themselves the first opportunity.
But if the watcher on the Han-side had be€n more observant, he would have noticed that the Jaunches going the oppo: way were equally crowded with fugees." So far as your correspondent hag been able to learn, there was no "trouble" in the city yess terday, and it appears that our} friends on the Hankow side have been more concerned about us than they need have been.
Horrible St from Honan So far as the fighting over the Honan border is concerned, there still no news of a definite victory for the Hupeh forces. Hsinyang hag not yet fallen, but there has been desperate fighting, and severe loss-_ jes on both sides. The stories which feome from the scene of warfare make a picture of horror such as it all too common in modern China. The hospitals are full of wounded soldiers, and there is not sufficient accommodation for the cases which fare pouring in. The civilian popuation are suffering from all the worst excesses which can be committed by a brutal soldiery. The missionaries at Hsinyang, after pass. ing through a nerve-ra of uncertainty and hardship, have nearly all escaped to places of safe-'Meanwhile recruiting is going} on in Hankow, and more "cannon fodder" is being sent up the line to add to the holocaust which is being offered up to the god of war.
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